salsify

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salsify - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Goat's beard \Goat's beard\, goatsbeard \goatsbeard\n. (Bot.),
     A weedy European annual with yellow flowers, of the genus
     Tragopogon; -- so named from the long silky beard of the
     seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant; it is
     naturalized in US.
  
     Syn: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon   pratensis
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          [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

  Salsify \Sal"si*fy\ (?; 277), n. [F. salsifis.] (Bot.)
     See Oyster plant
     (a), under Oyster.
         [1913 Webster]

salsify - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  salsify
      n 1: edible root of the salsify plant [syn: salsify, oyster plant
           ]
      2: Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple
         ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized
         throughout United States [syn: salsify, oyster plant,
         vegetable oyster, Tragopogon porrifolius]
      3: either of two long roots eaten cooked